Who Is The Most Popular Person Depicted In Stamps?

Hi,
I've kind of immersed myself in WW stamps (pre 1955) the last several months and noted that some individuals are portrayed on the stamps of several different countries. In example, the royalty of England, Franklin D Roosevelt, and Adolf Hitler seem to be the most common.

But that's just my observation. Who has had the most postage stamps with their image on them ?

Mobilman44

I may be wrong but if I recall from another thread...Mahatma Gandhi

If this were a gameshow question, I would guess "Queen Elisabeth". It's hard to imagine anyone beating out her image since it was used on british empire stamps for decades.

Christopher Columbus or Queen Elizabeth if I had to guess?

I would guess the Queen because of her 60 year reign.

I, too, suspect it's Queen Elizabeth.

I'd have to agree it's got to be Liz. Though not necessarily because she's 'popular', as your heading states.
To paraphrase Mel Brooks, 'It's good to be da Queen!'

Perhaps the most popular non-royal people are George Washington and Winston S. Churchill. At least, amongst English speaking countries.
Do not forget Lenin, Mao or (in South America) Bolivar.

Most popular... or most often depicted? The two are NOT the same.

Adolph Hitler was depicted on millions of stamps. I wouldn't exactly call him popular.

Are you basing it on the number of different stamp issues or total raw numbers of stamps? If the latter, in all likelihood Dr. Sun Yat Sen or Chairman Mao Tse Tung may hold the record.

I would have to say Queen Elizabeth.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Yes, of course there are a few ways to count the most stamps with a single person depicted. I guess my thought was on the number of different issues by various countries depicting the same person (as opposed to the quantity of all stamps produced with a single image).

In that case, I think the winner is clearly Queen Elizabeth II.

Queen, if you count as well her silhouette in all her British stamps that don't depict her+ British stamps that depict her + commonwealth + Territories and Outlying Islands + royal visits

It is only a single stamp, but I wonder how the 1993 Elvis stamp in numbers sold alone, would compare with the numbers sold of any other single individual on a stamp, all releases combined.

http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/arto...isballot.htm


-IBFS

Elvis would be minuscule amount vs Queen Elizabeth, queen Victoria and a couple prominent politicians like Chinese MAO, Stalin etc...He may be popular in Tenessee, and a few countries, but considering the short longevity, and the rest of the world well known figures, quantities printed, it would not even be close to 0.0001%.
Just a quick check shows that the Edward VII Canadian stamps 2c from early 1900 was printed in 2,287,300,000 copies..